GOG should consider to create a linux-tools.deb

It could work like this:

- seperate from game installers and purely optional

- creates folder like /opt/GOG Tools/

- folder easy accessable trough startmenu or desktop link

- includes docs folder with articles from the linux support page
for reference:
http://www.gog.com/support/support_view/bgeneral_troubleshooting_faq_linux_ubuntu_mint_gamesb
http://www.gog.com/support/support_view/i_have_an_intel_or_atiamd_video_card_and_most_of_my_games_dont_run_at_all

- includes scripts folder with helper scripts like "Install-32bit-Sound-Dependencies-amd64.sh"
for reference:
http://www.gog.com/support/support_view/i_dont_have_sound_in_a_32_bit_game
http://www.gog.com/support/support_view/some_games_come_with_a_32bit_binary_only_what_does_this_mean
http://www.gog.com/support/support_view/how_do_i_install_additional_libraries_listed_on_the_game_product_card

- scripts allready marked as executable by .deb installer and ready for double-click use

- scripts protected from faulty use by .deb installer setting read & execute only permissions for them

- download link on gamecards if it includes a script relevant for that specific game like
"Install 32bit sound support dependencies on 64bit Operating Systems"

- low maintainance one-for-all games linux-tools.deb installer (only sh scrips, menu/symbolic links & txt files)

- added convinience for users and has potencial to reduce support requests


Please, don't take any offence on poor style or possible spelling/grammar errors, I normally don't post and english is not my native language.


Kind Regards,

Oga23

Seems like a reasonable idea. While people like myself aren't above doing a little manual work to get the necessary dependencies and whatnot, there are going to be users, particularly many running Ubuntu and Mint, who are going to get lost at the first roundabout doing so themselves. Pfft. Your English is fine, and even surpasses most native speakers. :)

I agree, mostly inexperienced users would benefit from helper scripts, but a collection of support documentation would also make it easier for more experienced users to troubleshoot and set up their games. I am glad to hear that, however it took me houers to write this and 1 other post.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/linux_how_to_move_gog_game_folder_without_breaking_deb_installer_support

Hmm, that did not worked out as intended.

How did you manage to write above and beneath the text you quoted from me and still retained my avatar and the smaller font size for the quoted text ?

I just hit the reply button in the top-right of your post, trimmed down the quote to the relevant part and added my responses around it. I think if you were to do it manually, though, you need to modify the opening quote tag and add an underscore, followed by the post number, and that should do it.

For example, the post you tried to quote is post number 2. Instead of using "quote" as an opening tag, you'd use "quote_2". The closing tag would still have to be "/quote", though.

I'll post an example to see if that does the trick: [EDIT] Yep, that did it. If it helps, click the reply button in the corner of my post to see how I did it. :D
Also, if you're not sure about the number of the post you want to quote, just hover your mouse over that post, and it'll appear at the top of it, alongside a chain icon.

Test Reply Thank you, MrPointless !

I am a terrible forum noob ;)

I think the question here is "why?" . Apart from the problems with 64bit computers possibly needing the i386 libraries installed, I'm not seeing anything in your suggestion that's necessary.

Or at very least not more appropriate to Galaxy when they release it.

Maybe I miss something, but did they actually say anywhere that they were planing to release Galaxy on Linux ? I don't remember any mention of it.

To be fair, they didn't exactly announce which operating systems they'd be releasing Galaxy for at all, if I recall correctly.

Still, Galaxy's supposed to be an optional client. I fail to see why restricting such tools to that optional client makes any kind of sense.

I don't think GOG is going to release a Galaxy Linux client, and if, it won't come at the same time as the Windows client. It would be more conviniend to have one place to look for support documentation (even offline) before starting to search the forum or contacting GOG support if you have a problem with your linux game. As the linux game catalog is going to grow, other issues will likely arise.

I doubt that, 3/4 of the Linux installs come from about 4 different Distros and GOG is already supporting 2 of them.

So, there probably will be issues arising from that, but probably not that many. Plus, it's better to have that stuff online as it's impossible to force people to update their offline files.